JACKKNIFE

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NOUN
  • Definition - A compact folding knife.
  • Example - He kept a jack-knife in his pocket for various tasks.
  • Definition - The front-dive pike, in which the body folds and unfolds.
  • Example - It took me hundreds of dives to master even the simple jackknife
  • Definition - A semi-trailer truck accident in which the vehicle mimics the closing of a jack-knife.
  • Example - I have seen several jack-knives along that dangerous stretch of road.
VERB
  • Definition - To fold in the middle, as a jackknife does.
  • Example - The cat jackknifed in the air and landed gracefully on its feet.
  • Definition - To cause a semi-trailer truck to fold like a jackknife in a traffic accident.
  • Example - Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.
NOUN
  • Definition - A resampling method that applies estimators to all subsamples that each omit a single different group (possibly of a single datapoint) of the original sample to provide a sample distribution of the estimate.
  • Example - Before I knew what was happening, I'd jack-knifed the truck.
Words in your word
9 Letter Words
jackknife 29
6 Letter Words
fiance 11
5 Letter Words
kanji 16 kiack 15 knack 15 fakie 12 kenaf 12 knife 12 finca 10
4 Letter Words
jack 17 jake 15 jink 15 keck 14 kick 14 feck 13 ekka 12 kaki 12 kike 12 kink 12 fake 11 fink 11 jane 11 jean 11 kaif 11 kief 11 cake 10 neck 10 nick 10 cafe 9 face 9 fice 9 akin 8 kain 8 kane 8 kina 8 kine 8 fain 7 fane 7 fine 7 naif 7 neif 7 acne 6 cain 6 cane 6 cine 6 nice 6
3 Letter Words
aji 10 jin 10 kaf 10 kef 10 kif 10 ick 9 caf 8 ink 7 kae 7 kea 7 ken 7 kin 7 fan 6 fen 6 fie 6 fin 6 ace 5 can 5 ice 5 ain 3 ane 3 ani 3 nae 3
2 Letter Words
ka 6 ki 6 ef 5 fa 5 fe 5 if 5 ae 2 ai 2 an 2 en 2 in 2 na 2 ne 2
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